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and boehner would be well put not to try to cut a deal with obama but instead to say paul ryan's going to bring a solution to the fix, we're going to gather votes for it. i guarantee you, you'll get the right to have a democratic substitute. and if you can get enough republicans to vote for it, terrific. but they do not have an obligation to concede that the only mandate in washington is the president's. >> you're talking about chains hiring people for 29 hours. i'm hearing that from small business owners across pensacola. >> yeah. >> my own district. on election night i got three different e-mails from small business owners going it's sad -- and i said this on the air a couple days ago. they said i'm going to have to put these people on for less than 30 hours and i'm going to lose my best people. i can choose to do that or fire six, seven people because my margins are so small i'm fighting to keep my business open. >> you track the number of layoffs and closures in the first week since the election, it's sobering. and part of the reason we wrote "victory of yorktown" is say to people,
and boehner would be well put not to try to cut a deal with obama but instead to say paul ryan's going to bring a solution to the fix, we're going to gather votes for it. i guarantee you, you'll get the right to have a democratic substitute. and if you can get enough republicans to vote for it, terrific. but they do not have an obligation to concede that the only mandate in washington is the president's. >> you're talking about chains hiring people for 29 hours. i'm hearing that from...
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then boehner would move. then they'd move and boehner would move and there would be this back and forth and it didn't happen that way. these two have to figure out how to talk to each other. i don't know. maybe they need a therapist. >> i was going to say. >> they don't know how to negotiate. >> there are a lot of lawyers that mediate every day. >> this needs a mediator. >> they really do need a mediator in the middle. >> bring in kenneth feinberg. >> if you go to the other room, i'm going to sit here now and talk. lawyers do it in insurance cases. >> i understand why they do what they do in public, obviously, and it's politics. but when you say they don't know how to talk to each other. >> they don't. >> these are two smart men. i don't understand the concept, as i said, literally whether it is a mediator, what do you mean, they don't know how to talk to each other? there's a billion conversations a day going on between two people who have different opinions. and obviously, this is the high-stakes -- i don't
then boehner would move. then they'd move and boehner would move and there would be this back and forth and it didn't happen that way. these two have to figure out how to talk to each other. i don't know. maybe they need a therapist. >> i was going to say. >> they don't know how to negotiate. >> there are a lot of lawyers that mediate every day. >> this needs a mediator. >> they really do need a mediator in the middle. >> bring in kenneth feinberg. >>...
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you see what nancy pelosi said, what john boehner has been saying. then you go back to the president's press conference taking a pretty tough decisive tone on susan rice and then you look at what's happening and also his position on the tax increases. take all of that together, it looks like more of the same. do you sense and from your reporting are we just having people circle each other or are their feet in stone? >> i think there's still some areas where people can get to the right place. the two things i keep thinking about is the business community, i think, what steve says is exactly right. it seems like from the outside, what they want more than anything is certainty. it's not just moment to moment. it's minute to minute. it's crisis to crisis. and that is an atmosphere that's not conclusive towards optimal economic activity. this notion of trying to get to long-term stability but not having short-term austerity measures would be too depressed on consumer activity seems like where we need to end up and a lot of pressure from republicans to the
you see what nancy pelosi said, what john boehner has been saying. then you go back to the president's press conference taking a pretty tough decisive tone on susan rice and then you look at what's happening and also his position on the tax increases. take all of that together, it looks like more of the same. do you sense and from your reporting are we just having people circle each other or are their feet in stone? >> i think there's still some areas where people can get to the right...
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>> want to know about john boehner? >> sure. >> do we have the boehner sound bite? roll it. >> the president and i had a deliberate call yesterday and we spoke honestly and openly about the differences that we face. but the president's calling for $1.4 trillion worth of revenue. that cannot pass the house or the senate. >> we can bring a bill to the floor that the republicans don't have to vote for except for 25. hi to do it as speaker. do you know what it was like for me to bring a bill to the floor to fund the war in iraq? it's tough. but you have to do it. is the point you don't want to put your members on the spot, figure it out. we did. figure it out. >> figure it out, richard, when both sides are dealing with each other in good faith and i think it's important to note that the president was at one point $6 trillion. he's at $1.4 trillion. that ain't nothing. i think that requires john boehner, if we're playing in good faith to publicly go from 800 to 1. send a message and have the battles that we were talking about, michael was talking about, how are you going
>> want to know about john boehner? >> sure. >> do we have the boehner sound bite? roll it. >> the president and i had a deliberate call yesterday and we spoke honestly and openly about the differences that we face. but the president's calling for $1.4 trillion worth of revenue. that cannot pass the house or the senate. >> we can bring a bill to the floor that the republicans don't have to vote for except for 25. hi to do it as speaker. do you know what it was like...
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for boehner, he wants a deal. i do want to comment a second on the interview you had with paul ryan. ryan might not think that there is a mandate, but the president does, congressional democrats do, and the public does, if you look at polling. and there's zero chance that the president is going to compromise on this, which is why i think there's a decent chance all the tax cuts go away at the end of the year. the president put down a marker yesterday saying $1.6 trillion in total revenue that he wants to raise. i don't think that's the real number. i think that's a negotiated number. but you know the floor is $800 billion because that's what he had last year when he had a much weaker hand. so the number falls in between 800 and $1.6 trillion. you can't get to that number by just closing loopholes. there's no way congress is going to get rid of the charitable tax deduction. there's no way that we're going to change the dynamics in the housing market when the housing market is starting to recover by getting rid of t
for boehner, he wants a deal. i do want to comment a second on the interview you had with paul ryan. ryan might not think that there is a mandate, but the president does, congressional democrats do, and the public does, if you look at polling. and there's zero chance that the president is going to compromise on this, which is why i think there's a decent chance all the tax cuts go away at the end of the year. the president put down a marker yesterday saying $1.6 trillion in total revenue that...
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we all know john boehner. john boehner's a deal maker. i didn't -- i liked him personally, but i never trusted him in congress because, you know, he liked making deals. that's what we need right now. the president can only push him so far. or he loses his caucus. and this is not about john boehner kicking and screaming. this is about him knowing what he can deliver. >> i understand that. john boehner has, and eric cantor and a paul ryan problem, he's got to keep them on board as his key guys. he can only go so far. i would guess that they're the ones holding the pen when he wrote, "i will not raise rates" in that letter he sent to president obama. but the problem is, we can agree or disagree with the president's position. i honestly take the president at his word. i do not believe there will be a deal here without some increase in tax rates for the top 2%. it doesn't have to be all of it, but some of it. i think the president has changed his tune a bit from the way he's handled some of these other negotiations. and take everything you say
we all know john boehner. john boehner's a deal maker. i didn't -- i liked him personally, but i never trusted him in congress because, you know, he liked making deals. that's what we need right now. the president can only push him so far. or he loses his caucus. and this is not about john boehner kicking and screaming. this is about him knowing what he can deliver. >> i understand that. john boehner has, and eric cantor and a paul ryan problem, he's got to keep them on board as his key...
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i say let boehner be boehner. let him negotiate the best possible way out of the box. which is what i think you're seeing happen now. >> you mentioned grover norquist. he's making a new prediction, by the way. let's listen. >> understand how ugly the next four years are going to get. everything in obamacare that obama didn't want you to focus on or think about, the 90% of his trillion-dollar tax increase was pushed over till after he got himself safely re-elected. all those regulations you're now hearing about, okay, those all hit after the election. we've got four bad years of regulation taxes. he wants to add higher taxes to that. tea party 2 is going to dwarf tea party 1 if obama pushes us off the cliff. >> so basically, jon, what grover norquist is saying there to members of the tea party set who have been elected, who were elected, is, you know, we're going to take everybody who is against us into a primary on your right. >> right. >> on the republican side. >> right. >> so the threat has been issued already,
i say let boehner be boehner. let him negotiate the best possible way out of the box. which is what i think you're seeing happen now. >> you mentioned grover norquist. he's making a new prediction, by the way. let's listen. >> understand how ugly the next four years are going to get. everything in obamacare that obama didn't want you to focus on or think about, the 90% of his trillion-dollar tax increase was pushed over till after he got himself safely re-elected. all those...
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that's the challenge for boehner. i think to some degree the plan b is an attempt to give his people a chance to vote for something, but then it's going to have to shift to the president's terrain and he's going to have to be willing as a patriot and someone who doesn't go over the cliff to bring something to the floor, basicsally a more democratic plan than a republican plan. >> here's what boehner could have done. if he had taken obama's offer, tweak it a bit, he could have declared victory. and you know, he would have had great support from the democratic left. they all would have accused obama of selling out. and it would not have been a case lacking -- i mean, the boehner case, it was a real genuine compromise. and the white house really thought that's what it was. the second thing, what john boehner has to do is start doing on january 4th because january 3rd is when he is re-elected as speaker. i think there may be a fear that some of those right. wing members of his caucus might be so furious that any deal he c
that's the challenge for boehner. i think to some degree the plan b is an attempt to give his people a chance to vote for something, but then it's going to have to shift to the president's terrain and he's going to have to be willing as a patriot and someone who doesn't go over the cliff to bring something to the floor, basicsally a more democratic plan than a republican plan. >> here's what boehner could have done. if he had taken obama's offer, tweak it a bit, he could have declared...
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and in order for -- boehner has said, speaker boehner, is he's got to cut a deal, and he won't go to the floor unless he's got a majority of the majority. a majority of the republican conference. 170 republicans. and in order to get that, then you're asking 170 to somehow agree to raise tax rates. that's a lot. that's 170 guys breaking grover norquist's pledge. and that could be a primary suicide mission, joe. >> it could be. >> unless they figure out how to change -- that's why boehner's so desperately trying to come up with a way of saying look, we'll get you the same amount of revenue. we'll find it another way. just don't make us raise tax rates because he doesn't have the votes for that. he doesn't know how to get those votes. >> explain that. he can get it, perhaps, say by closing the loopholes? >> because he can make a more populist argument. you don't want these -- they're getting away with -- they're getting away with sort of chicanery inside the tax code. we're going to get rid of that. >> how about raising the capital gains tax 5%? >> well, i think that's -- that's somethi
and in order for -- boehner has said, speaker boehner, is he's got to cut a deal, and he won't go to the floor unless he's got a majority of the majority. a majority of the republican conference. 170 republicans. and in order to get that, then you're asking 170 to somehow agree to raise tax rates. that's a lot. that's 170 guys breaking grover norquist's pledge. and that could be a primary suicide mission, joe. >> it could be. >> unless they figure out how to change -- that's why...
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what do you make of speaker boehner -- >> why are we starting with chuck? >> because he's there and it's the fiscal cliff. all these politics to cover. >> chancellor of the ex-checker here going to chuck. i hope you would say the same thing about me. >> i defer -- i'll show deference to our former overlords. >> i'll just say, george, with all due respect i thought that perhaps chuck could give us the latest and perhaps he could react to it instead of launching into everything verbal vomit that some people have here on the set. >> let's go to the time author of "killing pit." is that it? >> wow. >> killing cromwell. >> killing cromwell. >> stay with the news here combining everything. ka chancellor, tell us who came to your cabinet meeting this week? >> we had a meeting of the british cabinet yesterday, which happens every week. the queen came to the meeting of the cabinet. >> it happened. >> wow. >> you probably think if you watch every week, but this is the first time that a british monarch has been to the cabinet since 1781, george iii was there to hear o
what do you make of speaker boehner -- >> why are we starting with chuck? >> because he's there and it's the fiscal cliff. all these politics to cover. >> chancellor of the ex-checker here going to chuck. i hope you would say the same thing about me. >> i defer -- i'll show deference to our former overlords. >> i'll just say, george, with all due respect i thought that perhaps chuck could give us the latest and perhaps he could react to it instead of launching into...
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, speaker boehner, pretty good guy. you can get a deal done with him. but you can't get a deal done with him or anyone else in the leadership because of the aforementioned, many of them, the newly elected republicans. >> we can't feel too sorry for john boehner because he couldn't be speaker but for the fact these guys came into town. he has an expression, boehner does, and that's if you say follow me and start walking and no one is following you, you're not leading. you're just walking. he's had to calibrate his leadership positions tailored to the fact that a lot of these guys are rebels. there's a moment in the book where the big guys on the appropriations committee chew out boehner and say, you're not punishing these guys for voting the wrong way. you should strip them of their committee assignments, take them off congressional delegation list, and boehner says i can't do that. it would make martyrs out of them. and that is the reality now that there are no more ear marks and right wing blogospheres to monitor every
, speaker boehner, pretty good guy. you can get a deal done with him. but you can't get a deal done with him or anyone else in the leadership because of the aforementioned, many of them, the newly elected republicans. >> we can't feel too sorry for john boehner because he couldn't be speaker but for the fact these guys came into town. he has an expression, boehner does, and that's if you say follow me and start walking and no one is following you, you're not leading. you're just walking....
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here's our clip from speaker boehner. at the end of last week, after the decision was announced, i mean the nation seemed torn between two sides. couldn't figure out where they were going, okay. so the question this morning is, based on that decision that was announced, it's in all the papers, what happened with tom cruise and katie holmes? >> exactly. >> what do you think? >> contract was up. five years, merely around to the date. >> you really think it was a contractual deal. >> oh, yeah. i know my e-mail will be hacked. >> i was crushed. i wasç crushed. i was surprised. >> a lot of us were. >> in my mind, in my mind i have that memory, that fleeting memory of love as we saw it on the couch. do we have that clip? look it. how could this end? he loved her. >> i'll reveal a little thing. you and i wept together over the weekend. >> what did you say to me? >> mike, it's not your life. it doesn't mean your marriage is not working. don't own it. >> said to you the next thing we know travolta is out of the house. but anyway
here's our clip from speaker boehner. at the end of last week, after the decision was announced, i mean the nation seemed torn between two sides. couldn't figure out where they were going, okay. so the question this morning is, based on that decision that was announced, it's in all the papers, what happened with tom cruise and katie holmes? >> exactly. >> what do you think? >> contract was up. five years, merely around to the date. >> you really think it was a...
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however, in talks with boehner, he did say he'd raise the beneficiary age, which is a beneficiary cut. >> it's a little boring. i'll read the document in which the president says to boehner, which he sent down from the white house last year, saying we will make beneficiary cuts. i asked the president about this in the interview, and he said there will be some beneficiary cuts. so, you know, there is a difference, but it's -- you know, this is the agony in all of this. why aren't we talking about it in the presidential campaign? why aren't we -- why are we having these sound bites and this denial? why don't we get down and talk about the real -- hopefully tonight they will. >> it should be fascinating tonight. i can't imagine that they get around being asked directly about specifics. and i can't imagine them getting around being asked to tell the truth. >> you know, let us hope, though, mark mckinnon that tonight, obviously a lot of people that are -- that run these debates, most people in the media watch this show in the morning. let's hope they're listening to bob right now. i'm sure
however, in talks with boehner, he did say he'd raise the beneficiary age, which is a beneficiary cut. >> it's a little boring. i'll read the document in which the president says to boehner, which he sent down from the white house last year, saying we will make beneficiary cuts. i asked the president about this in the interview, and he said there will be some beneficiary cuts. so, you know, there is a difference, but it's -- you know, this is the agony in all of this. why aren't we...
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john boehner didn't want to move that bill. romney came out in support of it, boehner scheduled a vote. there are a lot of house democrats that are not really enamored with the president, but i think they've been coming together, they know what's at stake. but i think the coordination between romney and congressional republicans is fairly strong. >> they're actually closer. isn't that fascinating? >> isn't it? it is. >> you go to the hill and talk to democrats, as we do an awful lot on the hill, there seems to be a real frustration with the obama white house. how many times, mika, did we hear in all the meetings we had over the past year of democrats saying, they don't get it. >> yeah. >> there was one democrat i talked to privately who said, i can't stand them. this is a democrat talking about the president. he just doesn't call them. >> he doesn't. and the only reason we bring that up is, like you said, the coordination is so critical. bill clinton -- >> a lot of disconnects. >> but i think earlier to your three ms, that mana
john boehner didn't want to move that bill. romney came out in support of it, boehner scheduled a vote. there are a lot of house democrats that are not really enamored with the president, but i think they've been coming together, they know what's at stake. but i think the coordination between romney and congressional republicans is fairly strong. >> they're actually closer. isn't that fascinating? >> isn't it? it is. >> you go to the hill and talk to democrats, as we do an...
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boehner had agreed to $800 billion. it's not hard to find $1.2 trillion as a kind of middle ground to that. then you want to have $4 trillion of total deficit reduction, so that leaves $2.8 trillion of spending reductions that have to happen. here's what people miss. we can avoid going over the cliff with the stroke of a pen. they can just extend all this stuff and kick the can down the road. the real question is are we going to have a big deal? are we going to agree on the major spending restraints that we need as well as the tax stuff in order to actually get the deficit under control? and i think the betting on that is less than 50%. i think we have a great shot at it. but it's going to be really, really hard. >> is that the view from wall street, too? they're not totally confident that this is going to happen? >> what you see in the stock market at the moment is that wall street is not totally confident. that's for sure. >> all right. steve, thanks so much. >> pleasure. >>> coming up, independent senator-elect of ma
boehner had agreed to $800 billion. it's not hard to find $1.2 trillion as a kind of middle ground to that. then you want to have $4 trillion of total deficit reduction, so that leaves $2.8 trillion of spending reductions that have to happen. here's what people miss. we can avoid going over the cliff with the stroke of a pen. they can just extend all this stuff and kick the can down the road. the real question is are we going to have a big deal? are we going to agree on the major spending...
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boehner nor senator majority leader harry reid. in a position to make it happen. >> i think that's right. when the time comes, if we get to the time where a grand bargain of, you know, big deal that would take care of the nation's fiscal challenges for the next 10 or 20 or 30 year, the president will have to be the one who lays it all out and he's argued for a balanced approach, has offered, you know, $3 in spending cuts to every $1 in tax increases. what he campaigned on. he's in a good position to make that case. not -- the moment is not right exactly right now but i think when we get there he's going to be the one that will have to frame the whole thing up. >> we saw the polls yesterday and harold, that if this doesn't work out, people are going to blame and it seems republicans will take some of the blame. i think people are beginning to look for movement from both sides but would be upset if it didn't happen with a republican party. >> it has to work out in some form or another. hopefully it's a long-term solution or patchwork
boehner nor senator majority leader harry reid. in a position to make it happen. >> i think that's right. when the time comes, if we get to the time where a grand bargain of, you know, big deal that would take care of the nation's fiscal challenges for the next 10 or 20 or 30 year, the president will have to be the one who lays it all out and he's argued for a balanced approach, has offered, you know, $3 in spending cuts to every $1 in tax increases. what he campaigned on. he's in a good...
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boehner met him in the white house -- >> barack obama owned washington for his first two years. and he misplayed his hand terribly and that has put him where he is now. if he gets re-elected, let's hope he uses his next mandate, a bit more wisely -- >> his instincts were really to be much more centrist. and i think the polarization in the tea party movement made it difficult. but i do criticize president obama for not taking advantage of erskine bowles, a good democrat and dick durbin, a progressive democrat supported erskine bowles. that was his opportunity. >> and, remember, back in january of 2009. >> yes. >> he had a new hampshire senator, judd gregg, that was ready to go work for him as commerce secretary. and after two weeks of seeing how he was dealing with republicans, threw up his hands, said, okay, i'm not going to work this guy. this is not the hope and change guy. >> one final point. what was key about your period when you guys were working this thing was the idea that you worked towards consensus. and that's what we're asking folks. >> michael steele and lanny davis
boehner met him in the white house -- >> barack obama owned washington for his first two years. and he misplayed his hand terribly and that has put him where he is now. if he gets re-elected, let's hope he uses his next mandate, a bit more wisely -- >> his instincts were really to be much more centrist. and i think the polarization in the tea party movement made it difficult. but i do criticize president obama for not taking advantage of erskine bowles, a good democrat and dick...
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can john boehner control the tea party? can mitch mcconnell protect his right flank? thank you very much. >> by the way, he's got to, i guess. he's got an election coming up himself. >> and he had a tough re-election. remember, he had to run six years ago right after the auto bailouts, had a tougher election than he wanted. >>> still ahead, new jersey governor chris christie joins the set. also actor bradley cooper will be here. next, senator saxby chambliss and andrea mitchell. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 after that, it's on to germany. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 then tonight, i'm trading 9500 miles away in japan. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 with the new global account from schwab, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 i hunt down opport
can john boehner control the tea party? can mitch mcconnell protect his right flank? thank you very much. >> by the way, he's got to, i guess. he's got an election coming up himself. >> and he had a tough re-election. remember, he had to run six years ago right after the auto bailouts, had a tougher election than he wanted. >>> still ahead, new jersey governor chris christie joins the set. also actor bradley cooper will be here. next, senator saxby chambliss and andrea...
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. >> is john boehner a strong conservative leader? >> i think that he is a conservative across the board. but he doesn't want to confront the president when it comes to the threat of a showdown. everybody knows that in this country. >> you have to do that. >> and i've said that for a year. >> all right. >> congressman king, thank you. if you get some clarity in the next eight hours will you call me? >> i'll call you first. >> thanks very much. >> congressman steve king, thank you so much. coming up next we've got mitt romney. >> all morning. here we go. >> tom brokaw, chris matthews, and eugene robinson. we'll be right back. losing weight clicked for us when we realized we could eat whatever we wanted and still lose weight. weight watchers online was so easy. you look up a food, you eat the food, you track the food. weight -- comes right off. you have lipstick on your teeth. ok. got it. using the recipe builder, i'm making 2 point enchiladas that will blow your mind. together, we lost 71 pounds with weight watchers online. quit dancin
. >> is john boehner a strong conservative leader? >> i think that he is a conservative across the board. but he doesn't want to confront the president when it comes to the threat of a showdown. everybody knows that in this country. >> you have to do that. >> and i've said that for a year. >> all right. >> congressman king, thank you. if you get some clarity in the next eight hours will you call me? >> i'll call you first. >> thanks very much....
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. >>> speaker john boehner warns republicans have a one in three chance of losing control of the house in november. >> is he a bookie now? >> 89 republicans will be running for re-election. >>> wall street journal net flicks is trying to recover from what angered their customers. the growth failed to impress investors. shares down 17% in after hours trading. >> that's rough. netflix ceo made a big mistake. >> do you have any stories from san francisco? >> sure. >> i love the city by the bay. >> a soccer ball that drifted ashore in alaska is among the first pieces of debris to arrive from last year's tsunami in japan. a japanese teenager whose name was written on the ball has been contacted and is expected to receive it back in the mail. >> how is san francisco doing? >> it's great. >> have y'all been out there lately? >> fabulous city. >> one of the best two or three. >> it's been one of my favorite two or three cities. i went there three or four years ago. a great ballpark. there were concerns there. the ballpark, a great team. >> great team. >> it's very hilly. >> i noticed that, too
. >>> speaker john boehner warns republicans have a one in three chance of losing control of the house in november. >> is he a bookie now? >> 89 republicans will be running for re-election. >>> wall street journal net flicks is trying to recover from what angered their customers. the growth failed to impress investors. shares down 17% in after hours trading. >> that's rough. netflix ceo made a big mistake. >> do you have any stories from san francisco?...